When She Stops Playing Nice

Chapter 10

After pocketing the bank card, Gina glanced at Mason, who was lurking behind Ethan. She signaled. “Bring him here.”

Fuming, Ethan, blaming Mason for his humiliation, grabbed him and threw him in front of Gina.

Gina flexed her wrist and landed a punch on Mason’s trembling face, causing his teeth to rattle and sending him crashing to the ground, his world going dark.

With her foot pressing down on Mason’s face, Gina demanded, “Delete the post, clear my name, and apologize.”

Tears and snot running down his face, Mason blubbered. Tll delete it. Please, get off me. I’m sorry, I screwed up, I’m the

Worst

Aria scoffed. “Suddenly all apologetic, huh? Thought you were Mr. Tough Guy.”

While sobbing. Mason scrambled to access the campus network on his phone, deleted the defamatory post, and published an apology under his real name.

Aria commented on the post right away. [All fluff, no stuff. Seriously, who buys this trashy gossip?]

Some recognized Aria’s account and, looking to curry favor or genuinely outraged, slammed the original post for spreading

Tumors.

Yet, others sensed something off about Mason’s apology, speculating he might have been threatened. But it was hard to imagine who would bother defending Gina, notorious as she was.

The apology stirred less buzz than the original rumor, but Gina wasn’t bothered. She knew many didn’t care for the truth; they just relished the chance to stomp on her a bit more.

The whole mess killed Ethan’s mood for drinking, prompting him to leave.

with Mason, Gina bid Aria farewell and

to manage the 600 million dollars the Miller family owed her.

to Clago Orphanage and the rest to build schools in impoverished areas,”

under the care of a kind–hearted director who often dipped into his own pockets to keep it running. Over twenty years, the orphanage expanded,

“Understood,” Michael responded.

way, Gina, seems like someone else is digging into

raised an

a son. The couple was good to her,

even considering going back to the orphanage. Before she could act on it, tragedy struck: the couple was found

them.

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and Gina was determined to find the killer. And

be their biological

track down the boy before, only finding a severed finger, fearing

shut. The

them and tear them

and see if they take the bait. She instructed

someone named “Neil”

about you come over for dinner tomorrow? You bailed before I could properly thank you for saving me.

to check up on Neil’s recovery. Rather than giving out her address, she sent him

Neil replied: [Deal!]

when a Maybach slowly pulled up.

Gina nodded.

you, the driver said,

along two jars of the potion.